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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Track Deleted Items

Ability to track deleted items such as having a recycle bin.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Color Consistancy in graphs in Reporting

In Reporting we make use of graphs. In a report we have multiple graphs on category, but the colors of the bars do not match in the graphs. We need the colors to be consistent, so every category has the same color in the same graph on the report. ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add rounded border edges to 11.1 visualisations in Report Authoring, with a Corner Radius property like in Dashboards.

If you copy a visualisation with rounded edges (e.g. corner radius 10px) from a dashboard to a report, the rounded edges are not supported in reports for the 11.1 visualisations, so they are removed. This makes drilling through from a dashboard to...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enhancing Report Interactivity with Data-Driven Prompts

This idea involves expanding the functionality of containers like lists, crosstabs, bar charts, etc., in the reporting canvas of Cognos, enabling them to serve as dynamic data prompts. This would allow users to configure these containers to set pa...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

XML copy for datasets

Hi There, We are using copy xml to clip board and open it from clip board for datasets on 11.1.3. but after upgrade to 11.2.4, this feature is no longer working (it copies queries but not pages). we raised a case PMR TS017545639 with IBM. support ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Make field search in reports the same as dashboards.

Currently the field search in reporting doesn't show a tree structure for where the field is coming from. If you have two similarly named fields you won't know which one to choose. In dashboards it shows the tree structure of where the field origi...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted